Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — BUCKSKIN BEN’S WILD WEST SHOWS. [ARTICLE]

BUCKSKIN BEN’S WILD WEST SHOWS.

Big Attraction at Abe Tippecanoe County Fair. Buckskin Ben’s famous wild west and dpg and pony shows, with his novelty wild west band made up of cowboys and cowgirls, will arrive In Lafayette on Sunday, August 29 and everything put in readiness for their owning of the Tippecanoe county fair. The show carries tents, seats, lighting effects, and everything per<o. " taining to a first class road show of this character. There are about fifty people, forty horses, and a number pf trained dogs, ponies and monkeys. The acts are all clean, refined and suitable for ladies and children as well as men. The acts will consist of trained horses, dogs, ponies and monkeys, bucking bronchos, fancy and trick rifle shots, cowboy and cowgirl riders and ropers, rope throwing and spinning, and other novel and up-to-date features, including all the best and latest ideas in the line of wild west shows, and the show is calculated to entertain and please all classes and all ages.

One of the features of the outfit is the camp and sleeping quarters of the show, as Buckskin Ben claims to have the nicest camp of any traveling show and the public is invited to visit and inspect the same at any time.

Buckskin Ben desires it to be understood that he does not countenance a lot of greasy and dirty Indians and cowboys, and a lot of stale acts, but that his entire show is clean, refined and up-to-date.

In addition Buckskin Ben’s wild west and dog and pony show, the fair management will introduce to the public the Nat Nazarro troupe of electrifying acrobats, this being their first appearance in America, also the famaus Japanese troupe, the Ishikawa brothers and Loughlin’s collection of trained dogs. Professor Gall’s balloon will go up every day at 4 o’clock. All this in edition to the fourteen big harness races and the stock parade and many other features to interest and entertain the people should make this the banner fair of all years.